The Book of Gods

037: Red Jade Stone

When he opened his eyes, Chen An found that his body had been tied to a large tree with a rope wrapped around his body. The same thing happened to Cui Lan, who had still not been conscious since being possessed by that spirit beast.

It was actually easy for Chen An to untie the rope, but the large number of people gathered, making him wonder why he was treated so.

There were at least ten men and women in front of Chen An. They carry tools commonly used by farmers.

A man of great stature, approached Chen An while carrying the Sword of Nirwana. “Young people! Tell me are you the one who burned our farm?!”

Chen An gasped in shock, He circulated his gaze and found the farmland in front of him that did look burnt out.

“I'm sorry Sir, I didn't accidentally do it.” Chen An explained that he would compensate for all the losses.

“An Gege ... What happened? Where are we?” Cui Lan who had just regained her senses, immediately asked when she found out that the situation between the two of them was not okay.

“Replace our loss? A dime you don't have any money, with what do you compensate us, Hah!” The man snarled furiously. Cui Lan finally understood what had happened.

Realizing that his robe had been ransacked, Chen An became annoyed. He exerted a bit of his inner strength and broke off the entire rope that bound his body.

The man gasped in shock, as well as the other residents. Especially after seeing Cui Lan also sever the rope that tied her body so easily.

“Uncle .. Is this money enough to recoup that entire loss?” Chen An inserted his hand into the robe and took it out again, after taking out ten gold coins from his Space Ring.

The eyes of the ten peasants glared wide. For cultivators like them, owning a single piece of gold coin was no easy feat.

Seeing them silent alone, Chen An took back ten Gold coins. “Are these twenty pieces of gold enough? Take Uncle and divide for everything!”

The ten peasants suddenly knelt down, they did not expect to have two gold coins one piece was worth a hundred pieces of Silver Money or a thousand pieces of Bronze Money.

Cui Lan who was feeling hungry, immediately picked up the gold coins and distributed them equally. He asked for the Sword of Nirvana from the man of great stature.

The farmers thanked him with a very cheerful face, even one of the female farmers, took something from behind the basket he brought.

“Nak ... Take my Ancestor's Jade Stone. We are old and have no children at all. I would rather pass this jade on to a good person like you.”

Chen An was caught off guard, He was forced to accept the red jade, because the old woman forced him.

The moment his palm came into contact with that Red Jade stone, Chen An gasped in shock. But he immediately became ordinary, after putting the stone under his cloak.

Chen An and Cui Lan left the farm, accompanied by a wave of the villagers who had tied them up.

Chen An again took the red Jade Stone, as they had come a long way with the farmland burning when the fight broke out overnight.

“Ah .. Why does this Jade suck my qi energy?” Chen An immediately made the stone disappear from his hands and stored it in the dimensional space ring.

He was a little worried about what the jade was doing to him, he planned to show the stone after meeting his second teacher, Thio San.

In her sense of how she saw what Chen An was doing, Cui Lan immediately asked the young man a question.

”An Gege .. How do you remove that jade?”

After hearing Chen An's explanation, Cui Lan pensively remained silent. Realizing these few days, He experienced things beyond his reasoning.

Chen An explained everything that had happened, while continuing to walk towards Zhaodong City which was already visible in the distance. While Cui Lan seemed to not believe what had happened to her.

“Blood Contract?! So it's not just a dream!” Cui Lan was surprised to find that the thing that he had always considered a dream, turned out to be the real reality.

“But why can't I fly like An Gege? How do I use the power of that Fire Phoenix Spirit?” Cui Lan asked increasingly. Chen An himself was stunned, as he also did not know how.

After using Xiang Long's memories, Chen An had Cui Lan pull out the Nirwana Sword and immediately drain his profound energy into the sword.

As expected by Chen An, Cui Lan's body gasped in shock as it felt a huge, flowing energy permeate his body.

“What did you wake me up, Princess? I see no opponent to be destroyed.” The voice of a woman, echoed in Cui Lan's head.

After muffling his shock, Cui Lan then asked him how he could use the mighty power of the Fire Phoenix.

The Spirit Phoenix Flame said that Cui Lan was enough to drain the power deep into the hilt of the Nirvana sword. After that, Cui Lan had to let him control his body.

Many things the Spirit Phoenix Flame explained to Cui Lan. That Spirit explanation ended after they were fifty meters away from the West Gate of Zhaodong City.

“Did something happen in this City? Why do these gate guard soldiers, all of them have the ability of Earth Swordsman.”

It was not only Chen An who realized that. Cui Lan who was now at the Intermediate Level Earth Swordsman Level, also realized.

This was a little strange to him, as normally the soldiers had abilities at the Beginner Swordsman Level to the Basic Stage Expert Swordsman.

“An Gege ... Do you realize anything odd?” Cui Lan whispered to Chen An who then nodded her head in response.

“Stay ordinary, as if we did not know it. Have you been able to hide your true abilities?”

Chen asked so in a lowered voice, due to their distance from the city gate, less than ten meters away.

Cui Lan nodded her head back. Chen An then asked the girl to hide her ability at the Swordsman King Level.

“Stop! Show your Identity Plaque!”

A Late Stage Earth Level swordsman who seemed to be the leader of that troop, reached out his hand to ask for his second Identity Plaque.

The Swordsman's eyes stared intently at the Sword in Cui Lan's hand. Looking at the handle of the sword that had the beautiful carving, he knew that the sword in the hand of the young girl was an heirloom sword.

“Base Stage King Swordsman already has an heirloom sword? This is rare, Who is this girl really?”

In his mind, the leader of the gate guard force immediately drew up a stratagem, in order to be able to obtain the Sword in Cui Lan's hands.

Meanwhile, Chen An reached out to hand over his identity plaque, as they had requested.

The moment that Gate Guard Squad Leader took out his identity plaque, Chen An suddenly flinched and a bad premonition immediately filled his mind.

The circular bracelet on the man's right hand, was a bracelet from the body of a black snake the size of a thumb, which he preserved with a special technique from Xiang Long's memories. The bracelet he gave to his teacher, Fei Long.

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